Chapter 1: Background and Introduction to Case Studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-262
Author(s):  
M.I. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Music And Politics ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Political Economic

The Conclusion draws on the empirical findings of each chapter in order to theorize—reflect on—our way “out” of these case studies. It follows on from the conceptual and methodological themes laid out in Chapter 1, challenges presented to scholarship across the disciplinary spectrum that looks to locate and track where, and how, “politics” (of race, class, gender, and religion) are now being rendered as and through music. Chapter 7 recapitulates the main themes from each chapter as references to audio clips, suggested listening, in order to underscore the findings of this study: how music-and-politics and, or music-as-politics sound within, and between sociocultural and political economic settings. Getting closer to how these practices and sound archives work means taking into account creative practices and performance cultures not only of music making but also of music taking. This final chapter can also function as an introduction for the book as the flipside of Chapter 1.

Criminalizing Villainy

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Jonathan Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
Late Fifteenth

In juridical theory, a villainy implied a malicious offence in word or deed that took on a legal dimension if it was particularly grievous, and thus warranted judicial redress. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the juridical concepts and categories of crime that were associated with ‘villainous’ or ‘foul’ allegations known as vilains cas. From the late fifteenth century, the notion of vilain cas expanded to include the very worst crimes (those dubbed vilains et énormes). Chapter 1 ends with two case studies of vilains cas, showing how in practice, punishing a villainy and even identifying a villain in law was far from straightforward.

Introduction

Leftovers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ruth Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Material ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Post War ◽  
Market Economics

The introduction establishes the untapped interpretative potential bound up with food and drink and representations of it. An extraordinary nexus of post-war French thought that uses or is legible through figures of eating and drinking is identified, along with the new critical combinations which here provide a framework for re-thinking eating and drinking in four case-study novels. The conventional literary potential of food and drink is established, before introducing the contrasting novels which exceed those conventions. These are well-known, prize-winning works, all translated into English. They are self-consciously literary and differently theoretically-informed about intersecting questions of language, trauma, gender, class, race and global market economics. Chapter 1 is introduced as providing a flexible critical apparatus for the ensuing case studies and as a suggestive tool for re-thinking representations of eating and drinking in other genres or media. Optimizing accessibility, case studies can be read singly or severally (references to relevant sections of Chapter 1 are provided), and the novel, writer and any relevant critical material are introduced before re-thinking the representations of food and drink in each post-war French fiction. Thus, culturally-specific insights emerge together with a springboard for examining leftover interpretations in other forms of representational practice from other times and places.

Strikes, Ballots, Law, and Democracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Breen Creighton ◽  
Catrina Denvir ◽  
Richard Johnstone ◽  
Shae McCrystal ◽  
Alice Orchiston
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the nature and purposes of strike action. It suggests that strikes are a means of protecting and promoting the social and economic interests of workers—especially in the context of collective bargaining. It provides an historical outline of the relationship between strikes and the law by tracing the transition from repression of union organization, and more specifically the capacity to take strike action, through toleration to recognition, and recently back to reluctant toleration. The chapter also notes that the capacity to take strike action is almost always limited in one or more ways, including restrictions on the organizations and/or individuals that can lawfully take strike action, the forms of strike action that can legitimately be taken, the matters in relation to which strike action may be taken, and the procedural requirements for lawful strike action. A very common procedural constraint is a requirement that proposed strike action be authorized by a pre-strike ballot. Chapter 1 introduces the usual ostensible rationale for pre-strike ballots—the need to protect the democratic rights of individuals: the so-called ‘democratic imperative’. It also uses two case studies to introduce important theoretical and practical issues raised by the use of pre-strike ballots.

Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sabina Lawreniuk ◽  
Laurie Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 1 introduces the concept of translocal inequality by highlighting the multi-faceted nature of inequality and its manifestation across multiple places, times and forms. Examples are offered to demonstrate how factors as diverse as a parent’s health, a child’s education and the specifics of agricultural livelihoods continue to influence individuals’ behaviour and wellbeing regardless of distance. However, as argued in this chapter, the impact of material differences across space is only part of the story. Rather, as Chapter 1 posits, such persistent, translocal inequalities in mobile contexts are sustained by narratives shaped by the interplay of economic, ecological, and embodied factors. In highly mobile and dynamic contexts, it is shown, these narratives of stigma and praise, inclusion and exclusion, are the constant that facilitates the persistence of inequality. Arguing that the large-scale nature of much scholarship on inequality serves to mask this subtle role, Chapter 1 then introduces the six linked case studies that comprise the book’s empirical sections, outlining how their combination reveals inequality to be a “total social fact” rooted in translocal networks of association, affection and obligation.

Knowledge and Network Typology

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-59
Author(s):  
Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
System Architectures ◽  
Firm Creation ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
New Business ◽  
Innovation Capacity

This chapter develops a matrix that plots variations in open/tacit versus closed/codified system architectures supporting or limiting innovation capacity and new-business creation in targeted sectors. Aggregate global- and microlevel data are analyzed to identify concentrations of innovation and firm-level activity. Emerging hubs of knowledge and firm creation in biomedical industries, including biopharmaceuticals, are identified. Aggregate data is supplemented with firm-level case studies and interviews with entrepreneurs, government officials, incubation managers, and investors. The conceptual framework outlined in Chapter 1 and specified in Chapter 2 provides the lens through which innovation and entrepreneurship strategies in China, India, Japan, and Singapore are viewed. The analysis is supplemented with firm-level entrepreneurial case studies.

scholarly journals Brand Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Sophia R. Arjana
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
White Male ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Material Religion

Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety examines thegrowing business of Muslim merchandise, ranging from food products consideredḥalāl (permissible) to children’s dolls that represent devout Muslimbehavior through sartorial choices such as modest clothing and the wearingof the veil. Faegheh Shirazi illustrates how a growing Muslim marketoften intersects, in both problematic and intriguing ways, with capitalism.Using an extensive survey of case studies, illustrations, and diverse Muslimcommunities (Iran and Indonesia are often cited), the book provides a usefulexploration of the question of Muslim consumption and contributes tolarger discussions surrounding material religion. In chapter 1, Shirazi begins her investigation into these topics by discussingthe problem of Islamophobia and how it may influence Muslimsto seek out markers of religious identity, thus influencing the market. Herdefinitions of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Islamoparanoia are useful,although I felt myself wanting a richer discussion of how these trends intersectwith white supremacy, colonial politics, and misogyny. Symbols—especially the veil and the mosque—can be used, as other scholars haveshown, to generate anxiety in non-Muslim populations. Although Shiraziis less interested in how these symbols are used to shore up white, male,Christian, or secular authority, she employs them to show the ways inwhich Islamophobia and radical, literalist Islamic rhetoric feed off eachother. The manipulation of this rhetoric is even used when non-Muslimsmake concessions in an effort to improve relations with Muslims, such asQueen Elizabeth’s 2010 visit to the UAE, when she covered her hair. AsShirazi points out, “Sheikh Yasser Burhani, one of Egypt’s leading Islamicscholars, jumped on the queen’s gesture as justification for furthering an oppressive,fundamentalist Salafi Islamic position” (p. 32). The ways in whichthe body—in this case a white, regal body—is used in debates surroundingIslam and modernity is at the crux of this book ...

scholarly journals The Changing College Student

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Herzog Patricia
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Changes

Chapter 1 explains how social science can help students navigate college. Beginning with illustrative student case studies, the introductory chapter describes how social, economic, and cultural changes over the last several decades resulted in the new life course stage called “emerging adulthood.” Emerging adults today are different from the entering college students of the past, which means that today’s students’ experiences are markedly distinct from that of their parents and grandparents. Detailing these differences across generations of entering college students, this chapter discusses the implications of these changes for understanding entering college students today. This chapter also introduces and summarizes the content of the subsequent book chapters.

Self-Narratives and Nonhuman Selves

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Herman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Species Ecology

This chapter, like the other chapters in Part I of the book, uses the concept of “self-narrative” to explore a variety of texts featuring nonhuman animals and human-animal relationships. Self-narratives have been defined by social psychologists as the stories people tell in order to make sense of and justify their own actions—with this storytelling process at once reflecting and helping establish relational ties with others. Using two primary case studies—Lauren Groff’s 2011 short story “Above and Below” and Jesse Reklaw’s 2006 graphic memoir Thirteen Cats of My Childhood—chapter 1 explores how different storytelling media as well as different methods of narration bear on the project of using self-narratives to situate human selves within a larger, trans-species ecology of selves.

A Bioethnography

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Armelagos ◽  
Dennis P. Van Gerven
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Premature Neonates ◽  
The Impact

We argue in chapter 1 that ethnography is the foundation on which anthropology stands. This chapter discusses what, if anything, we have learned from our research—beyond the empirical data gathered about the material remains—that might approach some degree of ethnographic insight. We look most closely to our case studies in chapter 6 as a means of addressing the question. In the case of our hydrocephalic, we consider the impact of such a devastating and protracted condition on the caregivers who must have sustained her. We also consider the evidence for personal and emotional behaviors, such as the braiding of a child’s hair and the burial of premature neonates in pottery urns. We conclude that we have learned a great deal beyond the material we set out to investigate.

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